Intensive Cultivation.
An example of intensive cultivation is to be seen on a patch of about threequarters of an acre on Mr. L. Bishop’s farm at Tarurutangi. Here are growing swedes, carrots, mangolds, cabbages, brocolli, marrows and piemelons, and all are looking well. The seed was all put in by hand drill and the land was well fertilised and cultivated. Despite the ravages of the white butterfly, already over 70 dozen cabbages have been gathered from the area and there are many more. The brocolli appears to have survived the butterfly, whilst all the root crops are doing well. There are hosts of marrows and piemelons. A part of the area was devoted to potatoes of which seven sacks were harvested. It was certainly a polyglot plot, but was one that would be valuable to the farmer. New Zealand Produce Values.
Last year New Zealand exported £13,000,000 worth of wool, £11,000,000 worth of butter, £7,000,000 worth of lamb, £5,000,000 worth of cheese, £1,000,000 worth of pork, and £4,000,000 worth of by-products from the livestock industry, a total of £46,000,000 in a time of lev prices.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1935, Page 24 (Supplement)
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185Intensive Cultivation. Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1935, Page 24 (Supplement)
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